Average Ratings

There were 53424 raters in the GoodReads community – that’s a lot! We chose to take a deeper dive into the top 15 raters by number of ratings to look at features such as on their average ratings.

Average Ratings and Number of Ratings for Top 15 Raters
User ID Total Ratings Average Rating
12874 200 3.450000
30944 200 4.210000
12381 199 3.427136
28158 199 3.939698
52036 199 3.442211
6630 197 3.573604
45554 197 4.030457
7563 196 3.500000
9668 196 3.841837
9806 196 3.632653
14372 196 3.602041
15604 196 3.954082
19729 196 3.663265
24143 196 3.948980
37834 196 4.132653

What about in comparison to the general GoodReads community?

Descriptive Statistics for Top 15 Users’ Ratings
mean_value median_value sd_value
3.756574 3.663265 0.2655814
Descriptive Statistics for Overall GoodReads Community’s Ratings
mean_value median_value sd_value
3.928512 3.920454 0.4495428

It looks like the Top 15 raters are on average a little less generous with their scores than the general GoodReads community.

Genres

The 15 Top raters had a range of genres so we looked at the top 3 genres rated by how many ratings per genres. The clear winners were fiction and classics, with all 15 raters having fiction in their top 3 and 13 of the 15 rating classics.